"Just Take a Different Angle"

"With its almost palpable tenderness and artistic imagery, the film became a film-school favorite, used in classes as an example of an exemplary student film and making the festival rounds until it won an award in Berlin four years after it was made. The Library of Congress chose it as one of the first 50 films on the National Film Registry, and the National Society of Film Critics selected it as one of the '100 Essential Films' of all time."

In the Los Angeles Times, Mary McNamara interviews director Charles Burnett, as his 1977 movie Killer of Sheep makes its first theatrical run.